Cyndi Lauper: If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?

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If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Cyndi Lauper

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I’ve constantly been changing myself my whole life. I am what you would call “a piece of work” in progress.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 April 2020 source ↗

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Martin Scorsese

First of all, I’d like to stop complaining—I’m beginning to annoy myself. I would like to learn to read faster, however. Again, the rest I’ve learned to live with.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 February 2010 source ↗

Carol Burnett

My tendency to worry about the future if there’s nothing you can do about it.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 17 June 2020 source ↗

Serena Williams United States professional tennis player, 1995–2022

I wouldn’t change anything about myself. If you asked me 20 years ago, I probably would have had a long list. But I’ve learned to appreciate and love who I am.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 February 2021 source ↗

Nancy Pelosi

That I would have focused more on languages.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 May 2019 source ↗

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Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

Aside from my mom, my husband, and my mother-in-law, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and RBG.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

Question What do you fear most? Identity & self

A world where greed rules.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

Question What thought won't let you sleep? Daily life

My son. He is a teenager.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2014 source ↗

Question What most recently moved you to tears? Identity & self

At a function for the True Colors Fund, where formerly homeless gay and transgender kids were telling their stories. It was heartbreaking.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2014 source ↗

Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

Two-faced phony-baloneys.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

I cut people off a lot when I talk. It’s a terrible habit.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

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